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Some 5.1 million names were removed from the Commission on Election's official list of registered voters for the 2025 national and local elections , the poll body said Tuesday. Comelec Chairperson George Erwin Garcia said a total of 5,105,191 registered voters were deactivated from the official list while 248,972 names were deleted."' deleted because of death multiple and double registration," Garcia told reporters in a Viber message.
Reasons for the delisting were failure to vote in two successive preceding regular elections, by court order, loss of Filipino citizenship, and having non-valid documents.Meanwhile, Garcia said the poll body received a total of 409,329 applications for reactivation from February 12 to July 20.Last May, the Comelec said 4.2 million names were removed from its official list of voters, mostly from Calabarzon.Meanwhile, 4.6 million voters registered for the 2025 NLE, the poll body said last week.
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